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Account for the Decline of Partisanship as a determinant of Voting Behaviour
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Account for the Decline of Partisanship as a determinant of Voting Behaviour How does Dealignment affect voting behaviour? Dealignment is a term used when analysing politics, in contrast with realignment, to describe a trend or process where a large portion of the voters abandon their prior partisan link, without developing a new one to replace it. Since the 1950s, the proportion of the electorate that would define themselves as a strong party identifier has fallen, this can be validated with the fall of people calling themselves 'strong democrats' which was 22% in 1952 and had fallen too 15% by 1994. This abandonment of party could be caused by people who are easily influenced by the media, whom generally criticise both parties, making the voter confused and unable too decide who they want too vote for and so decide not too vote either way. Politicians have lost a lot of...
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